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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. BRITTAIN, JOSEPH ROLLEY, AND WILLIAM MOGEORGE, OF SPRINGVILLE, CALIFORNIA.

REMEDY FOR THE CURE OF SCAB IN SHEEP. v

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,479, dated September 27, 1881.

Application filed October 27,- 18 79. v

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, CHARLES E. BRIT- TAIN, JOSEPH RoLLEY, and WILLIAM Mo- GEORGE, of Springville, in the county of Humboldt and State of California, have discovered a Remedy for the Cure of Scab in Sheep; and we do hereby declare the following is a full and exact description of the said discovery and of the ingredients composing the same and the proportions thereof-say in the proportion of one pound of lard, one pound of rosin, two ounces of spirits of turpentine, one ounce of red precipitate, two drams of quicksilver, two drains of oil of smoke, two ounces of borax, mixed into an ointment.

The ointment is applied as follows: Make an incision in the skin on the top of the shoulder of sufficient size to receive as much of the ointment as will lie in the bowl of a teaspoon.

,Place the ointment therein and close the in- 20 CHARLES E. BRITTAIN. JOSEPH ROLLEY. WILLIAM MOGEORGE.

Witnesses o J. E. WYMAN, J. M. MELENDY. 

